Northern Minnesota Reef Club

DIY- 36" 4x39W SLR T5 High-Output Retrofit Kit w/ Bulbs

B_bossany — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:25:34 GMT

FOR SALE - DIY- 36" 4x39W SLR T5 High-Output Retrofit Kit w/ Bulbs, with individual Tek reflectors, two "brand name here" ballasts, waterproof endcaps, and bulbs. Bulbs will need to be replaced soon but they should get you started. Also needs new 18g wiring.

The set is for 4 high out put bulbs. This is the set installed in my hood. Works great. Paid 280 new without the bulbs.

$200.00/ obo

I survived

brad — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:34:04 GMT

Well I survived my emergency appendectomy. Still have a lot of healing to do, cause they did not close me up all the way,for infection purposes. Well now Terasa has to help me with the tank, cause i can not lift. Take care everyone

Frag Swap event?

blennieluvr — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:08:49 GMT

How hard would it be to host a frag swap, raffle and line up some speakers and would anyone come if we did? All those types of events are always so far away. It would be awesome to have one closer. It wouldn't need to be as big as theirs. ?? Am I crazy to even bring this up? It could be in Duluth or Grand Forks or something. That'd be cool. I'm mot sure Bemidji is the best place although it would be cool for me if it was. I do a lot of event coordinating and would be glad to work on ...

Stay or Go??

Home_Depot — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:48:07 GMT

The chat box?? what are your thoughts???

Stuff for sale...

KSnell — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:17:48 GMT

I am moving and need to break down my tank, preferably by the end of the month. I have about 40 pounds of live rock and 10 pounds of live sand, a clown fish (true), 6 line wrasse, cleaner shrimp, a rock with a few polyps on it, and an unidentified LPS coral. The rock unfortunately has a pretty healthy macro algae outbreak on it, which I keep trimmed as much as possible. This stuff would be great for someone who wants to make a sump.

In addition to the stuff above, I have 2 20 gallon ...

another light

Mn. reef crzy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:00:17 GMT

K i switched one more of my lights out, this one was on my fuge. It is a 4' pc, i dont believe the internal fan works but If someone wants it 25.00, light worked great just wanted something smaller.

Corals, Rock, sand, live stock F/S

B_bossany — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:36:53 GMT

Corals, Rock, sand, live stock F/S

I am breaking down my tank. My wife and I just cant keep up with the up keep of it with our new jobs and also moving in the near future. I have a bunch of different corals. I will sell everything in tank for $250.00 or Best offer. (including 50lbs rocks,100+lbs live sand from tank) I have a true perc, cleaner shrimp, royal sea urchin, star fish, hermits, turbos.

Send me an email.

Bossany@gmail.com

I will send you pics of the set up

Thanks ...

Also looking for

Home_Depot — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:37:42 GMT

A non working Coralife 18w UV

24" Light

Home_Depot — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:10:18 GMT

I am looking for a 24" PC light to put on my sump. So if anyone has one let me know

Can anyone part w/any of this? I'm looking...

blennieluvr — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:34:33 GMT

Looking for:

1) Rock

2~~) foxface~~

3) light for sump

4) koralia or other for flow

Or, let me know if you see deals on other forums. I've been tyring to watch but it seems like I always miss the good deals. A day late and a dollar short. You know how it is.

Skimmer & Light

Home_Depot — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:31:07 GMT

I am looking for a skimmer and a light to put on my future frag tank. I am not really sure how big of a skimmer I will need? it is only going to be like a 20g frag tank so I don't need nothing to big. and for a light I guess maybe a t-5 or a MH pendent would work?

Garrett

My new 75 gallon

Karl — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:48:20 GMT

Clarkii chilling by bta

The Gang

Big Bird stealing the show

Filter System sump and Mag 350

Pics got a lil cut off but you get the general idea ... I love this setup and equipment wise I have a Coralife PC 48inch, Stealth Heater, Magnum 350 Canister full of carbon, ammonia remover, and soon to be added nitrate and phosphate removers... Unknown Sump Acceis or something With Air pump modded Turboflotor Skimmer Rio 2100 Skimmer reciculating pump with needle wheel and 2100 ...

Some New shots of my tank

Home_Depot — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:18:31 GMT

I want to get rid of these so if anyone would want some I can frag some.I think they are called wood polyps.the brown ones below next to the candy cane

Meeting on Saturday

brad — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:20:59 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know Brad had an emergency appendectomy yesterday and is still in the hospital. He will be back online as soon as he is home.

Sorry that we are missing the meeting. We were really looking forward to it.

see you at the next one,

Terasa and Brad

Pics of my new fish and brain

GoingPostal — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:30:24 GMT

Ok, after a ton of pics, one that's not blurry, still not the best but you get the idea

Blacklined Fang Blenny

Green carpet lobo, next to my red one

And a pic of some acans just to fill space

How about the dog's new collar? We all need something to look at on here, lol

Frags for sale

Home_Depot — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:25:53 GMT

Here is what I have for frags that I can bring to the meeting

1-Green Palys 6 polyps $18.00

2-Yellow polyps 3 polyps $5.00

3- Green Palys 3 polyps $9.00

4-Zoas 3 polyps $5.00

5-Orange Bam-Bam Zoas 8-10 polyps 25.00

6-Green Palys 5 polyps $15.00

7-bright yellow/green acro SPS $5.00

8- Green Palys 3-4 polyps $12.00

9 Green Star polyps $5.00

10-Zoa rock I would say at least 50 polyps $40.00

11- Hariy Mushrooms 2 Mushrooms $10.00

13- ...

coraline algae question

Home_Depot — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:26:08 GMT

I know you want coraline to grow in yours tank but I have got to scrap my glass it seems like weekly. is there anything I can do to not get it to grow??

Grape Caulerpa and cheato

brad — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:30:15 GMT

If anyone needs any of this let me know and I can bring it to the meeting.

FINALLY!!!

Dedex — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:44:53 GMT

Finally...some photos of my tank:

Dori:

Bubble Polyp:

Some Zoas and Mushroom:

Brain (not very happy):

Bubble Mushrooms:

RBTA:

Orange Plate Coral (not a very good pic):

And some further back shots. The snails ate the blue paint right off of the overflows! I guess you could say it is reef safe then as the snails are still alive! I hate the coraline that is growing on the back of the tank. If I had it to do over again I think I would ...

RIP foxface

blennieluvr — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:10:58 GMT

What a bummer. Our foxface was stuck to the MJ intake when Jason got home yesterday. We noticed the few feedings before that it wasn't going after the food like it had before. Still, it seemed OK. Guess not. It was alive last eve but not doing well. We did a water change and went to bed hoping for the best. This a.m., I got to do hold a flushing service. That's the worst part of this hobby! Grieving losses. It was such a cool fish too. We were really glad we got it. And, what is ...

New to NMRC

Hamdogg08 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:46:49 GMT

Hey guys, I saw a link for this in the TCMAS forum. Where are most people located? I'm guessing most are closer to Duluth/Morhead than TC.

Ack! Somebody smack me!

GoingPostal — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:54:04 GMT

I checked Live Aquaria's Diver's Den as usual and fell in love with a bright green carpet lobo, I had to have it. I wanted something else so it wasn't just one thing on the order so I looked though all the sections and couldn't find anything cheap enough, then checked fish and found they just added a fang blenny! I've been lusting over these fish since I started the hobby but was kinda scared since they are venemous. Hopefully it doesn't bite me now, lol. I'm so excited, we haven't gotten ...

need help....found aptasia

blennieluvr — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:19:46 GMT

I found another small one. It's not our first bout with the ugly stuff but, after hearing what happened to Val last time, I'm afraid to kalk paste it which would seem the easiest method to use. It's right next to a candy cane coral that I'd hate to stress or harm. Last time Jason took the rock out and gouged the whole area out and then we rinsed it off good. I'm not thinking that would go over well this time. I hate stuff like aptasia. Finally get the tank looking how we want and feeling ...

Plate coral for sale

GoingPostal — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:47:18 GMT

Ok, this is Jason and Danielle's plate that I am holding for them as it is too large for a nano, lol. It's the green one in the picture and is probably 5-6 inches expanded easily so it is a big one and is green with a purple rim and mouth. Probably looks awesome under actinics. Also likes to move around the tank a bit. They are looking to get $45 or possibly trade for other frags/corals.

Also if anyone's interested I would sell the purple rimmed one in the back, it looks a ...

Drives you crazy

Home_Depot — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:44:46 GMT

Try this, you have to click the ball to make it change colors!!!

http://mazzanet.id.au:80/ball.php

For Sale 55gal setup

alissa — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:05:49 GMT

This week we have decided to sell our entire system, we just do not have the time and are not home enough to properly care for it. I would like to sell it as a whole but it I must sell things seperately I will do that. I will give you the details if you or anyone you know might be interested. It is a 55gal with a nice oak stand and canopy, about 15lbs LR, Fish include a Yellow tang, blue regal tang, green chromi, pair of clowns, lawnmower blenny (i think thats what it is), cleaner shrimp and ...

Selling Fish

alissa — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:30:29 GMT

Hi all,

I live in Thief River Falls and am looking to sell some of my fish. I have a blue tang about 3-4", a yellow tang about 3", a pair of clowns and a green chromi. I am taking offers if anyone is interested.

something to talk about

Mn. reef crzy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:31:44 GMT

I see like 10 people were on here today and no one has anything to talk about. Someone has to have been doing something with there tanks. I can start and say i finally decided to go with a set of tunzes. I am going to have a wavebox creating a 1.5 " wave in the tank and i went with two of the controllable stream pumps that will hopefully compensate my needs. I did decide to go with aquasurf which will run in conjunction with the ac3pro instead of using the tunze controller. I got my ...

220 gal for sale on TCMAS

blennieluvr — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:42:10 GMT

Only $1250 too. Too bad we're not closer! http://www.tcmas.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10348

Looks nice. It's going to go quick!

interesting article

Home_Depot — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:08:12 GMT

This is a very interesting article about MH lights

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-04/ac/index.php

Have to brag!!

Home_Depot — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:36:42 GMT

here in Bemidji we had a grand opening for Acme Tools and they had a nail driving competition and the fastest time won a Stiletto TiBone hammer valued at 229.00. When I walked up to the area were they were and saw the time to beat it was 2.64 seconds to drive 4 16 penny nails. I was kind of like wow that would be a tough time to beat,but the guy said you might as well give it a try.. so I did and I got a time of 1.47 seconds to drive the 4 nails. so I won a new hammer

The guy told me that ...

ph monitor for sale

Mn. reef crzy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:04:04 GMT

I have a milwaukk ph sm122 controller for sale. This monitor allows you to watch the ph in your tank. I thought I would offer it here first. Here is the link for the controller.

http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/PH/ORP/TDS-Monitors-&-Controller-Milwaukee/c66_83/p406/Milwaukee-pH-Controller-SM122/product_info.html

Here is the link to the probe you would need to purchase.

http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/PH/ORP/TDS-Monitors-&-Controller-Generic-Probes/c66_84/p416/Generic-Ph-Probe/product_info.html

You ...

Coral Disease and Parasites

Home_Depot — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:00:07 GMT

Here is a good site

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/coraldisease.html

ways to dose calcium

brad — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:40:44 GMT

What ways do you folks use to dose calcium. I have to dose every other day with API. I do not want to get a reactor though. Purple up gets it up there too but not to effective. Just lookin for some hints.

Video from Brets meeting

Home_Depot — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:31:06 GMT

1967 GTO!!!

Home_Depot — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:13:47 GMT

I am looking for a 67 GTO/LaMans parts car. I am going to start the restoration of one and need some parts so if you know were one is LMK

Thanks

Cheato anyone

Home_Depot — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:04:50 GMT

I have got some cheato if anyone needs any

Let me know

WTB: Enclosed Trailer and Boat

Home_Depot — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:52:25 GMT

I am looking for a 6x10 enclosed trailer to haul my tools in and also looking for a 16' fishing boat.

yack thread - what's going on?

blennieluvr — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:14:12 GMT

Since we may not meet till late August, let's talk about how things are going?

Some topics to get us going:

1) How are the frags from Brett's meeting?

2) Anyone conquering problems or stumbling upon new ones?

3) Anyone get new critters, coral, equipment they want to yack about?

I'll start.

1) I got a RBTA from Brett's meeting and it looks happy and readily accepts food. Very cool to have. Awesome color. My clown could care less about it but that's OK I guess. I also ...

progress! Aquascaping

Mn. reef crzy — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:24:28 GMT

Here is a picture of the tank after adding some rock.

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj122/MNREEFCRZY/frontdisplay.jpg

meeting pics?

blennieluvr — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:53:59 GMT

Anyone working on getting the pics up from our meeting at Bret's house?

Also, does anyone else use the A & B Solution like he does? We want to order some but it doesn't seem like F&S stocks the same stuff he had.

new frag tank

Mn. reef crzy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:07:32 GMT

Here are some pictures of the tank Ben just built for me.

He did a really nice job again.

Frags for Andre with before and after shots

GoingPostal — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:22:51 GMT

I didn't really have a better way to send you these so I figured I'd start a thread, I'm including before and after pics because some of the stuff was my shipping disaster and looked horrible and others have just grown.

Pink and green chalice shortly after I got it June 2007

Today with flash

Purple chalice when I got it, thought it was dead Feb 2008

Today

Micros when I got them Feb 2008

Today

lights for sale

Mn. reef crzy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:22:06 GMT

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3733+12113&pcatid=12113

part number cd25742

3-250 watt 250 w mh de hqi, 4 96 watt pc, and 4 lunar, 3 250 w ballasts.

paid like 1400 when i bought it new 2 years ago and if one of you want it you could have it for 500. and i could meet you half way or we could figure something out i am sure. It all works perfectly and am selling because i switched

lighting to t-5.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+3733+12112&pcatid=12112

part ...

Some of my new frags

GoingPostal — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:39:08 GMT

Couple of the new chalices

New blastos, bright red and the green ones are new, the purple w/ green are my old ones

Huge green paly I wanted

New acan lords, the front right are old

Yellow figi leather I bought off the retail store

Full shot of the Aquapod

Bret's Meeting pictures

Home_Depot — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:42:14 GMT

Here are some pictures for the meeting will upload more later

New Rhizo and old dendro

GoingPostal — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:50:30 GMT

James has wanted one of these forever and I finally found a good deal, it got here yesterday and looked great within a few hours in the tank, it's amazing!

A shot with the dendro too

Just the dendro

MJ1200 for trade

blennieluvr — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:52:44 GMT

Anyone want to trade an MJ1200 for something smaller? This 1200 is too much for my softies. We used it for a couple of months at most.

T5 bulb question

blennieluvr — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:25:51 GMT

I thought I posted this somewhere earlier but can't find it so, if I repeat myself, please forgive. We'd like to try new bulbs for our T-5 fixture to see if it helps. Some of our corals are translucent. Since we're ordering from F&S next week, I thought now would be the time. I'm thinking of two actinic white 12,000K T-5 HO Flourescents (they are the highest K I find at F&S) and thought I'd pair them with two of the T-5 HO Reef Blue 10,000K Flourescent. Not sure of the brand of either. ...

DRS Frag Swap!

GoingPostal — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:14:08 GMT

I'm so excited, we leave tomorrow! I need way more money I think, I already owe $170 to the Meisen guy for a bunch of nice stuff and haven't even gotten there yet. I'm bringing a camera and lots of batteries so I can post pics when we get back. Anything somebody really wants that I should keep an eye out for?